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He was being tried for raping and beating Mayella Ewell when in fact it wasn't him; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mayella tried to force herself on him, and when her dad found out he beat her so they both blamed that incident on Tom Robinson and got away with it although the last of Bob Ewell's credibility was gone by the end of the trial.

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